Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have repeatedly requested payment of 60,000 Naira from leaders of the Fa’a Gaya community in the Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State to track the mobile phone numbers of bandits threatening the community.
According to SaharaReporters, after bandits threatened to attack the community if 30 million is not paid, the elders of the community were invited to the police headquarters and queried.
Afterwards, the police asked that the community elders pay the sum of N60,000 to enable them to track the phone numbers used by the bandits to threaten the community, to apprehend them.
The report also added that the police threatened the community leaders and warned them against talking to journalists.
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The source said, “The elders have been invited to the police headquarters at Yola and the officers are asking them to pay N60, 000 to track the bandits’ phone lines, is this proper?
“The bandits sent threats to the community yet the police couldn’t track them instead they’re harassing community leaders over nothing.
“A young man was arrested by the police, this was because he was the one the bandits called when they issued threats that they were coming to attack. The young man sells cows, so they (bandits) got his number and asked him to give their number to an elder in the community which he did.
“Now they have arrested this young man but what efforts are they making to ensure they track and punish the bandits? The community cannot take such threats lightly because bandits are very deadly. They say and do what they promise. It is not just fair that the police treat citizens this way.”
The bandits, from their hideouts, had issued threats to the Fa’a Gaya community, demanding N30 million to keep them from invading and launching terror on the community.
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